A final of the Top 12 French Championship play-offs, on May 23 and 24, the French Youth Championships from May 26 to 29… Red Star Mulhouse badminton is working hard by organizing two major events, which should delight badminton lovers!
It will be difficult not to talk about badminton during the week of May 23 to 29… Red Star Mulhouse Badminton (RSMB), which plays in the Top 12, the highest level in France, will play the play-offs on May 23 and 24. May, at the Regional Sports Center. “The play-offs should have taken place on May 6 and 7 in Fos sur Mer but a series of events, including a change in the international calendar, changed the situation, explains Pascal Ziegler, president of the RSMB. Since we are organizing the French Youth Championships at the end of the same week, we have supported these finals to take place in Mulhouse! »
Facing the “monster” Chambly
And this, especially since for the first time in its history, the Mulhouse club is one of the four teams qualified for these finals, at the end of which the champion of France will be crowned, winning at the same time his ticket to participate. in the European Club Cup. Second at the end of the regular phase of the championship, the Mulhousiens will meet Chambly in the semi-finals, while Fos will face Aix. “We play against Chambly, it’s the scarecrow, the monster, analyse Pascal Ziegler. We are not necessarily favorites but we have a real chance, because we will be complete, with very good players and a competitive team! »
A full team
And it is an understatement to say that the RSMB team is competitive, with in particular Arnaud Merkle, French champion in 2021, or Thom Gicquel, very recently on the second step of the podium at the European Championships, in doubles , with her partner Delphine Delrue… The RSMB can also count on the Lovang brothers, Margot Lambert and Camille Pognante. The latter will also have a rather busy week, since she is one of the ten RSMB badminton players involved in the French Youth Championships, which will take place from May 26 to 29, still at the Regional Sports Center.
A national influence
“We had already organized these French Championships in 2018 and 2021, with the Departmental Committee”continues Pascal Ziegler, whose club also organized France seniors in 2020. The Cité du Bollwerk will therefore once again be the capital of French badminton for a (long) weekend, which will see no less of 550 young players on 12 pitches set up for the occasion. “We are asserting ourselves as a badminton training center and placing Mulhouse on the badminton chessboard in France, abounds the president. We want people to know that Mulhouse exists and that the city shines in French badminton! » With two national events organized during the week, the foundations are laid. For the rest, we hope to see Mulhousiens on the podiums at the end of this long and beautiful week!
Top 12 play-offs, Monday May 23 at 6 p.m. (semi-finals) and Tuesday May 24 (small final at 1 p.m., final at 5 p.m.), at the Regional Sports Center.
French Youth Championships, from Thursday 26 to Sunday 29 May, at the Regional Sports Center.
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